USEFUL LINKS IN FRANCE:
DIRECTORIES OF PEOPLE AND INSTITUTIONS

This is the Cnamts’s (National Health Insurance
Fund for Salaried Workers) directory of health professions.
Searches can be made by name, identification number, profession,
or département (geographical subdivision of a region).

This database describes the 3400 documentary
institutions which contribute to the Sudoc network activities.
It helps to identify and locate these institutions, and to use
the related services (address, opening, particular services,
etc.).

This site gives the addresses of the 32 French
teaching hospitals, and also provides information on current
teaching hospital developments by displaying numerous articles
(searches by teaching hospital, theme or free text).

The CNOM - French Medical Association (Conseil
national de l'ordre des médecins) put its national file on the
practicing physicians online: searches can be conducted by
medical specialty, physician's name, city, or zip-code

This directory provides information on health
care professionals by specialty and region, as well as on health
establishments in the largest sense of the term (medical and
social organizations and administrations, associations,
merchandizing services...) by region and type of activity.

DIRLINE is the US National Library of Medicine
database which contains information on organizations. It
includes a category of organizations which specialize in
research on the organization of care, the evaluation of
technologies, and the development of guidelines.

The EDIRC is an international directory which
contains the Internet addresses of institutes, departments, and
research centers specialized in economics. Searches can be made
by country, field of research, or type of organization. Health
economics, public economics, and econometrics are among the
fields included.

The server provides the general public with
access to some of the information in the Finess directory. It
contains data on the structures authorized to install health or
social services equipment (legal registration address), as well
as on the premises where this equipment is installed and where
the corresponding health or social services are performed
(establishments). Also included are health establishments
(hospitals and other care facilities, laboratories, and
pharmacies), social services establishments (for the elderly,
young handicapped people, disabled adults, children, and
deprived adult populations), and establishments which provide
professional instruction or training courses for health and
social workers. You can search the database with or without
assistance. Once you have specified the geographical information
(region, "département" i.e. geographical subdivision of a
region, or township), establishments can be identified by their
Finess number (i.e. their record number in the Directory) ,
official name, type of establishment, or legal status. For
example, a hospital will show the following data: address, some
general administrative information, and some indications on
authorized capacity by discipline.

The CNIS - French National Council for
Statistical Information (Conseil national de l’information
statistique) lists the important statistic-producing
organizations in France and their fields of inquiry: farms and
businesses, households, local administrative bodies, other
(public establishments, associations...). A category is called
"Santé, protection sociale" (Health and Social Security).